我以为我把她从爱丁堡的 那些上层人士手中救了出来
“I thought I was saving her from those posh Edinburgh folks,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
或是更好的职业 比如银行家
“or, better still, a banker.”
我以为 我 把 她 从 爱丁堡的 那 些上层人士手中救 了 出来
“I thought I was saving her from those posh Edinburgh folks,”
所以当我听说 我压得她喘不过气来 她很不开心时
“so it broke my heart to hear I was smothering her.”
“I fancied myself her savior, but my assumptions were completely deluded.”
In Chinese pragmatics, '我以为' almost universally signals that what follows was an erroneous assumption, immediately foreshadowing disappointing reality.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
I thought (mistakenly)
Specifically indicates that the speaker's prior belief turned out to be incorrect or invalidated.
upper-class people; the social elite
Used to describe high society or aristocracy, often carrying a slightly detached or critical nuance.
Indicates the perceived completion of the action in the speaker's past subjective mindset.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“The woman you saved”
“She's using past favors to demand repayment!”
“but she found another chance and escaped.”
“The wife being there on account of Finch beating the shit out of her.”
“You didn't give anyone a chance to save her.”
“Whoever takes my daughter away from me will pay.”